William H. Mischo

Biographical Sketch

William H. Mischo is Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center and Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Before joining the UIUC Library in 1982, he was at OCLC, Inc. and Iowa State University. He was a Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Digital Library Initiatives (DLI-I) grant awarded to UIUC (1994-1998) and a follow-on CNRI D-Lib Test Suite project that ended in August 2001. In 1998, he established the Grainger Library Collaborating Partners Program whose members include professional society publishers, commercial publishers, and governmental agencies interested in retrieval and rendering of full-text electronic resources. He is the PI on an NSF NSDL (National Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics Digital Library) grant awarded to UIUC in September 2002 and a co-PI on a recently awarded IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) integration grant.

Bill has published over 45 articles in library and information science journals and conference proceedings. He has presented at numerous conferences and gave the keynote address entitled “XML Technologies and Scholarly Communication” at The XML Workshop for Electronic Journals held March 9, 2001 in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2001, Bill received the 2001 Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Libraries Division.